Nicholas Donabet Kristof (Nicholas D. Kristof) Quotes
Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.
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I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I know nothing about technology.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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You can't watch 'Daredevil' or 'Jessica Jones' or the Marvel films and not be aware that the villain has to be awesome. I've always wanted to have more space. And the scope, morally, is more broad for the villain than the hero.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.
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Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.
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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
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Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.
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I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.
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People don't always do what they say they're going to do.
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Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.
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An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains.
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I like the medium boys. Not real perfect, but not too bad, either.
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Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.
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The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
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Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.
